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Any idea what happened to the treasure?" Zavala asked

"Unfortunately none of the carvings goes beyond the one you saw of the safe arrival of the ships," Chi said

Nina frowned All this talk of treasure is exciting," she said with iold and jewels should not keep us fro to find the answer to the question of why my expedition was massacred in Morocco"

"Nina's right," Austin said "Let's concentrate on the thread that connects these inscriptions to the other discoveries overseas Christopher Columbus We know that hundreds of years after these stones were carved Colureat treasure" He pointed at the screen "Could this be what he was looking for?"

"I hate to throw cold water on your theory," Orville countered "The ru could have had their basis in the real riches held by the Aztecs As we know the Spaniards hit the jackpot later:" He paused "You say Colu a definite course Do I understand he was following a map?"

"Not exactly" Austin said "You re out of your files?"

"Oh, yes, the article from my Fortean file about the stone artifact"

"Colu stone' "

"Now I re shipped in an arht here to the Peabody, in fact"

Austin said, "That stone could be the key to this whole mess Treasure and assassinations"

"What a shame we can't take a look at it"

"Who says we can't? NUMA has tackled deeper and more difficult projects"

"Let ," Orville said with disbelief "You're planning on diving more than two hundred feet into a wrecked ocean liner in God knohat condition to retrieve a massive stone artifact from a locked armored car?"

Zavala winked at Austin "With any luck we can do it between breakfast and lunch and celebrate at dinner"

"Hmm," Orville said with a ser at the two NUMA men "And they say I'm a nutcake"